It was always Donald Trump’s intention to ‘make America great again’, and to this end he seems to be singling out Russian and Chinese technology organisations as targets. This is despite the prospects of damaging many US-based organisations in the process.

Here are some examples of his technology ‘directives’ already published and/or, proposed, that are intended to achieve these goals.•    The elimination of the use of software from Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs within the US public sector; •    US regulators adopting measures aimed at barring wireless carriers from using federal subsidies to buy telecommunications gear made by Chinese manufacturers;•    Blocking Broadcom’s proposed $40bn+ acquisition of Qualcomm, despite the former moving its head office back to the US from Singapore;•    Blocking Chinese entities from taking over smaller semiconductor companies based in the US, such as Canyon Bridges’ recent attempt to buy Lattice Semiconductor and Xcerra’s $580m sale to a Chinese state-backed semiconductor investment fund;•    A seven-year ban on US firms selling components to ZTE, allegedly for the latter breaking terms of an agreement on punishing employees reached last year after it was caught illegally shipping goods to Iran; and, •    Proposals that could see Android licences not being granted to companies supposedly seen as a security threat to US telecoms networks and thus could include entities such as Huawei Technologies, Xiaomi and ZTE.